“Who was Baby Peggy?” The answer may shock you…with the buzz around the award winning silent based films like “Hugo” and “The Artist” many modern film lovers don’t realize we still have a silent film star among us! And she wasn’t some bit player either, Baby Peggy was A STAR. By 1923 she was making $1.5 million a year (adjusted for inflation this would be roughly $15 million a year) and was one of the top stars at a time when Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson were top draws at the box office.